Fish market hooks new digs

End of an era: Fishmongers work at the Fulton Fish Market in New York. After more than 170 years, the market is moving into a new building in the Bronx.

Colo. town evacuates City Hall, post of 2ce

City Hall and a post of F ce in Arvada, Colo., were evacuated and a bomb squad was called in after a car carrying chemical tanks was parked nearby, but of F cials determined the vehicle was not a threat. The two adjacent buildings in the Denvers uburb were evacuated after a witness reported that a man carrying a duffel bag had run from the car in the city lot shortly before 7 a. m., police spokeswoman Susan Medina said. The motorist contacted police and said he left his car after he got tired of waiting for his girlfriend, who was in police of F ces in City Hall, Medina said. Tanks found in the car were construction- related, she said.

Tourist bus crash kills 2 in Nashville

A bus returning tourists to their Nashville hotels after a boat cruise collided with a tractor- trailer, killing two people and critically injuring three others, authorities said. The bus apparently drove through a red light and was turning when it was struck by the tractortrailer in the intersection Wednesday, police Capt. Paul Trickey said. The investigation continued Thursday, and Trickey said he did not knowwhether charges would be F led. The buswas returning from the General Jackson Showboat nearth e Grand Ole Opry.

Underground Railroad station may be lost

A 200- year- old Boston house believed to have been a way station on the Underground Railroad has been almost entirely knocked down, angering preservationists. City of F cials said the owner, real estate agent Eric Stevens, had permits to renovate the home, not to demolish it. The city has stopped work on the house, but critics say it is too little, too late. “ We fear it’s pretty much lost to us,” said James Igoe, president of Preservation Mass. The red brick home was once owned by John Coburn, a prominent black businessman and outspoken abolitionist, and may have sheltered escaped slaves in the 19th century. Stevens said he wanted to restore it but it was beyond repair. “ I’m willing to do whatevert he neighborhood wants,” Stevens said. “ But we can’t rebuild it until we take it down.”

Inmate wins seat on Calif. school board

Inmate Randy Hale won 831 votes and a seat on the school board in the Romoland School District Board in a community about 70 miles north of San Diego. Hale, 40, was returned to prison in September for violating his parole on 1998 convictions for spousal abuse and drug possession, the California Institution for Men in Chino said, and is due to be released Feb. 15.